New Delhi, May 4 (Inditop.com) As many as 1,501 people have died in India due to swine flu, but the influenza A (H1N1) has now shown signs of abating, the Rajya Sabha was informed Tuesday. Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said the H1N1 cases have dropped in the past few weeks. Till...

New Delhi, May 4 (Inditop.com) As many as 1,501 people have died in India due to swine flu, but the influenza A (H1N1) has now shown signs of abating, the Rajya Sabha was informed Tuesday. Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said the H1N1 cases have dropped in the past few weeks. Till...

New Delhi, April 6 (Inditop.com) The World Health Organisation (WHO) Tuesday admitted that the swine flu scare was exaggerated as alleged by several countries, including India, But it declined to comment whether it was done to benefit global pharmaceutical companies. “Yes, it was,” Samlee...

New Delhi, April 6 (Inditop.com) The World Health Organisation (WHO) Tuesday admitted that the swine flu scare was exaggerated as alleged by several countries, including India. “Yes, it was,” Samlee Plianbangchang, regional director of WHO southeast Asia, said in a reply to a question on...

Mexico City, March 30 (Inditop.com/EFE) A year after the outbreak of the deadly swine flu epidemic that killed over 14,000 people across the world, Mexico has said it suspects the disease originated in the US. Public health officials in Mexico suspect the disease came from the US when Mexican tourists...

Shimla, March 3 (Inditop.com) A new swine flu case has been reported in Himachal Pradesh after a gap of over a month, a health department official said here Wednesday. With this, the number of Influenza A (H1N1) cases in the state has risen to 45. “A 54-year-old man was admitted to Shimla’s...

New Delhi, Feb 24 (Inditop.com) India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a swine flu testing kit that can diagnose the pandemic in just two hours and reduce the cost of a single test fivefold – to less than Rs.1,000. “This test kit can diagnose positive...